Lester gets racked as Sox lose again

From ESPN Boston Box Score

BRADENTON, Fla. -- Jon Lester's third Grapefruit League start resembled his previous outing, except this time the left-hander could not escape damage due to his inefficiency.
Lester, who was sporadic at best during his 81-pitch appearance last Friday in which he surrendered two runs in four innings, gave up four runs on eight hits in three innings against the Pirates on Wednesday. Lester, who tossed 80 pitches in the outing, surrendered all four runs in the third inning.
"I'm more disappointed because I felt the best (this spring) with my mechanics and I was able to repeat my delivery," Lester said of his outing. "To waste it is bad."

Stay positive. It's only the spring. Deep breaths.

Lester will figure it out I'm not worried about that. The fact that he said he "felt" good is the most important thing heading into Detroit. I'd be lying if I said that Andrew Bailey isn't making me a little nervous but he has such a small sample to go off of that you really can't look to far in to it.

So let's focus on the good things like the offense which was paced by AGon who went 2-3 with an RBI and a run scored while Salty went 2-3 with 2 RBI's and 2 runs scored. Franklin Morales also had his first outing of the spring and pitched well prompting Bobby Valentine to remark,

“He pitched well. He threw the fastball, breaking ball, changeup. All of his pitches. It’s a good sign.”

The most improbable and suprising stat of the night? Pedro Ciriaco went 0-4 dropping his average to .429.